The Myth of Mao Zedong and Modern Insurgency

• Main Author: Grice, Francis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Terrorism.; Political violence.; Political theory.; World politics.; Political leadership.; Peace.; Terrorism and Political Violence.; Political Theory.; Political History.; Political Leadership.; Conflict Studies.

Tackling one of the most prevalent myths about insurgencies, this book examines and rebuts the popular belief that Mao Zedong created a fundamentally new form of warfare that transformed the nature of modern insurgency. The labeling of an insurgent enemy as using "Maoist Warfare" has been...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. What Mao Actually Taught
• 3. The Unoriginal Mao
• 4. Mao and the Chinese Revolutionary Civil War
• 5. The Insignificant Mao
• 6. The Deification of Mao
• 7. Conclusion.